Claudia Messina

Claudia Messina was a DEA attache at the American embassy in Bogota, Colombia.

Biography
Claudia Messina was born in New York, United States to a family of Italian descent, and she joined the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) at some point. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush sent Messina as an attache to the American embassy in Bogota, Colombia, where she would lead the DEA operations in the country during the hunt for Pablo Escobar. She decided to open field offices in Cali, Cartagena, and Barranquilla, and the Medellin team (Javier Pena and Steve Murphy) would be moved to the Colombian National Police headquarters after personnel changes were made. She wanted to dismiss Steve Murphy after he punched two cocaine-sniffing Americans in an airport bathroom, but Pena attempted convince her to keep him.